Occasionally, I’ll go to my Favorites page on Etsy, just to take a lingering look at what I’ve accumulated.

For example, I favorited Etsy shop owner sarahparrott825, because she has the most precious thing going. She calls it, “Press & Post,” which she describes as “a monthly delivery of one letterpress card complete with a kraft envelope & vintage postage stamps for those who love to write & send beautiful notes.”

What an absolutely, positively splendid idea. And who doesn’t like pristine vintage postage?

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Gathering Etsy Favorites is one of my many labors of love.

I’m the saver in the family, so it’s not about parking things to pick them up later… though I certainly do Paypal it up every now and then. (My credit card bill alternates between Whole Foods, Etsy, rent and Chipotle.) I have a few reasons for picking Favorites… sometimes I feel like I need something, sometimes I find something inspiring, but most of the time I feel like having the opportunity to easily access and stare at something for whatever length of time pleases me. To infinity.

Or ’til it makes its way to the blog. A totally legit reason to hoard loveliness, no?

1. Origami cranes are my thing. (Shout out, childhood.)
2. It’s just a paper crane – a beautiful paper crane, but a crane, nonetheless – however, somehow Shadan’s crazy skillz transform the scene it into a topographic landscape, complete with mountainous lanterns, what seem like jellybean lowlands, and I think there’s a kid in the back. (And that’s either a huge white diaper entombing his bottom half, or a sunbeam splashing off of an unknown in the foreground. Votes?)

“I’m a vegetarian,recently-married,closeted reality-show loving,friendly,artistic girl who would just like to turn my hobby of making things into a full-time career before I poke my own eye out with my pencil at my current 9-5 cubicle job.”

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~ A set of favorites from Sigmosaics, comin’ at us all the way from Christchurch, New Zealand <– why I love the internet. I’m digging the “lip” of orange that rises just above the external mosaic.

I think it’s really just the vibrant colors that got me with this one. I realize it’s only ribbon. Folded mini bundles of ribbon. But look at them… aren’t they sort of glorious? Maybe it’s just me…

And I want these coasters BADLY. I have a healthy chunk of German heritage flowing through my very visible German veins, and… well, I can’t really reveal to you yet the other reason. But it has to do with the red bear print… though I guess that IS obvious. What else could it be? :)

Look at that punim. So cute!!!

This was a more self-indulgent post than usual. I do like to self-indulge, but maybe this one was kind of REALLY self-indulgent. Thoughts?

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